And the actor alleges successful his latest filing that helium learned about "Jolie's putative sale" to Stoli done the property merchandise and that she "collaborated successful secret" with Yuri Shefler—a Russian-born billionaire who founded the company—and his associates to "pursue and past consummate the purported sale, ensuring that Pitt would beryllium kept successful the dark." Pitt further noted that Shefler had antecedently sought to bargain Miraval and that helium had turned him down.

While the Oscar victor besides alleged successful his documents that the U.S. Treasury Department had designated Shefler arsenic an "oligarch successful the Russian Federation," the businessman was exiled from Russia successful 2000 owed to his absorption to President Vladimir Putin, CNN reported.

The actor further accuses Jolie of changing her caput astir selling her involvement to him pursuing a impermanent ruling successful his favour successful their custody battle. In precocious May 2021, about four months earlier the announcement, a retired justice hired to arbitrate the case had granted Pitt associated custody of the erstwhile couple's children.

The Eternals actress—who shares Maddox, present 21, Pax, 19, Zahara, 18, Shiloh, 17, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 14, with her ex—later took ineligible action and a California appeals tribunal agreed with her that the justice who made the ruling should beryllium disqualified from the lawsuit due to the fact that he  didn't disclose concern relationships with Pitt's lawyers sufficiently. Their custody lawsuit is ongoing.

"In the aftermath of the adverse custody ruling, she nary longer wanted to merchantability to Pitt," the histrion states successful his amended complaint, "notwithstanding her contractual obligations and years of assurances to him."

Jolie has not responded to Pitt's latest filing but had alleged successful 2022 tribunal documents that she was not obliged to merchantability her involvement to her ex. E! News has reached retired to her lawyer for remark and has not heard back.

The erstwhile couple's conflict implicit the winery dates backmost to 2022. In February of that year, Pitt sued Jolie for allegedly selling her interests successful Chateau Miraval without his consent. The 2 had bought the winery arsenic a associated concern backmost successful 2008 and joined connected the grounds of the vineyard successful 2014 successful beforehand of their six kids.

Then successful September 2022, Jolie's institution filed a $250 cardinal countersuit against Pitt, alleging that helium devised a run to "seize control" of Chateau Miraval "in retaliation for the divorce and custody proceedings." The Girl, Interrupted actress had filed papers to extremity her marriage to the histrion successful 2016 and portion a justice declared the 2 legally single successful 2019, they person yet to settee their divorce.

In her filing, Jolie stated that successful 2021, she sold Nouvel to an planetary beverage institution after the Babylon histrion allegedly "ignored" a "final connection to merchantability her involvement successful the winery.

"Although Jolie was not obligated to merchantability to Pitt, she nevertheless offered to merchantability her involvement to him and negotiated with him for months," her filing reads. "Nearing a deal, Pitt's hubris got the amended of him: helium made an eleventh-hour request for onerous and irrelevant conditions, including a proviso designed to prohibit Jolie from publically speaking astir the events that had led to the breakdown of their marriage."

In a June 1 effect to her countersuit, Pitt stated that helium denies each allegation and wants a justice to disregard Jolie's cross-complaint with prejudice.

Pitt is seeking punitive and exemplary damages from Jolie, a declaration that her purported merchantability of Nouvel is null and void, and demands a assemblage trial.